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Articles 24621 through 24720 of 26693:
- The Political Stain (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Prime Minister Vajpayee shows how the debate on corruption must be recast
- When Vajpayee Spoke Like Nehru (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 18, 2003)
Because of the media's preoccupation with the Indian cricket victory in Australia and with the excitement over the POTA amendment, not much attention has been paid to the import of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's performance in the Rajya ...
- ‘dubey Enforces Our Belief In Human Values ’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
There is no place for honest people in our system. If they do not get killed — they are shunted out on branch lines to obscurity. The only solution is to dismantle the system.
Raghubir Singh
- The Post-Saddam Moment (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 17, 2003)
This capture changes equations — both within Iraq and the world
- Both Jogi, Judeo Cases A Disgrace: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
Calling the Judeo and Jogi cases a ‘‘disgrace’’ and ‘‘black spots’’, a visibly upset Prime Minister today tried to take a bitter debate to a higher plane when he urged all parties to rise above politics and ponder on ‘‘what’s happening in the country’’ an
- Cheating Is Bane Of Indian Elections: Lyngdoh (Tribune, Tarun Basu , Dec 17, 2003)
THE Election Commission is finding it more and more difficult to conduct elections in India because the “kind of cheating that goes on today is stupendous”, the Chief Election Commissioner says. Mr James Michael Lyngdoh said in an interview: “The ...
- With Eyes Open (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 16, 2003)
Yashwant is doing his job better than Jaswant is doing his
- Bangladesh, 32 Years After (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 16, 2003)
The unity that once bound our eastern neighbour to us is forgotten
- Open Borders (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2003)
PRIME MINISTER Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s impassioned plea to the South Asian nations to follow the European model would have been dismissed as a Nehruvian dream had it been made two decades ago. The European Union has been in existence since November 1993...
- Bombastic Jamboree (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 15, 2003)
THE UN, never at its wits' end in organising jamborees or dipping into its scant budget for chasing wild geese, went to great lengths on December 10-12 to provide a retreat at Geneva for the governments of 175 countries to ponder over measures to bridge
- Of Hindutva And Governance (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 15, 2003)
Signs of Hindutva were unmistakable in the elections... [But] we are so used to equating it with belligerence that we do not notice it when it takes subtler forms.
- Just Too Much In The Pink (Indian Express, Sagarika Ghose, Dec 14, 2003)
Listening to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto deliver a calm and measured lecture at seminars, another young woman comes to mind. Almost two decades ago, on a summer morning, Benazir was at Oxford University. Years before this, she had been
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Commonwealth At Crossroads (Tribune, L. H. Naqvi, Dec 13, 2003)
52 heads failed to look beyond Zimbabwe!
- Sore Losers, Inc (Indian Express, SHREEKANT SAMBRAN , Dec 12, 2003)
In fact, the true architects of the BJP victory are Congressmen and women
- The World According To Sonia (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 12, 2003)
It requires no complicated analysis to conclude that Sonia Gandhi probably has the job she wants. Number 10, Janpath is any day a superior bungalow to 7, Race Course Road. Every world statesman, representative of think tanks, scholar who visits New Delhi
- Whistles, Stings And Slapps (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 12, 2003)
Corruption in India is a mega industry to which public exposés are no match. Pro-whistle blower laws need to be enacted.
- Empire Of Spoils (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
America is taking its ‘you are with us or against us’ motto too far in Iraq
- Creating Jobs In Haryana (Tribune, D. R. Chaudhry, Dec 12, 2003)
‘Suraksha Sathi’ scheme is not the answer
- Executive Is Not Always Right (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 12, 2003)
Article 144 of the Constitution states that all authorities, civil and judicial must act in aid of the Supreme Court. Commenting on the apex court judgment on the disinvestment of the public sector undertakings, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and
- Delay In Delhi (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2003)
Systems and conventions determine individual action. The inordinate delay in announcing that Ms Sheila Dikshit will be the next chief minister of Delhi can be explained by a prevailing set of democratic practices in India. By any reckoning, Ms Dikshit was
- Pm: No Remote Control In Judeo Video Probe (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2003)
ls: Vajpayee says he sent Express story to CBI; Oppn slams Govt, CBI
- India’s Degenerated Polity (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 11, 2003)
Judeo and Jogi are its telling symbols
- A Faceless Election Ahoy! (Business Line, M. A. Venkat, Dec 11, 2003)
THE first phase of elections is over, and the results have not been flattering to the Congress(I).
- The End Of The Line? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 11, 2003)
A traveller who got lost in the countryside came across a farmer standing by a fence. He stopped to ask him for directions. The farmer, chewing on a blade of grass, told him, “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
- Has Democracy Arrived? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 10, 2003)
ONE of the arguments the white colonial die-hards, notable or notorious among whom was Winston Churchill, used against quitting India was that the country steeped in feudalism and fragmented along ethnic, linguistic, sectarian, caste and religious lines..
- Bush’s Sinking Ship (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Dec 10, 2003)
Coming back to Washington after a month abroad is like returning to a land which has changed beyond comprehension in so short a time. It is okay once again to poke fun at POTUS, the president of the United States. Talk show hosts like Bill Maher are no...
- Sad Times For Sonia (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 10, 2003)
And the party has run out of ideas
- A Notable Milestone (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Dec 10, 2003)
IT is a matter of pride that the country has achieved near-total self-sufficiency in the manufacture of slogans. I hope the habitual India baiters will take note of this signal achievement.
- Calling Justice (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Thank you, Indian Express, who has come out as a responsible newspaper in a country which is growing ignorant day by day. The murder of Satyendra Dubey for his honesty & sincerity has come as a shock for a person like me who has always believed that ...
- Muck Unspooled (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
Leaders must step in, clean up political practices if our democracy is not to go down the tube
- Election Lessons (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 09, 2003)
The BJP’s victory shows that the electorate, concerned with more immediate issues, has chosen a party of order over one of diffuse choices
- Remember Europe (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Dec 09, 2003)
The last week of November witnessed important meetings between leaders of the European Union and the government of India, a major event following the Indo-European summit to which the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, went last year. The president of
- Zimbabwe Haunts Chogm (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 07, 2003)
The Zimbabwe re-entry issue continued to dog the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit today, with the six-member panel appointed by the host President failing to break the impasse.
- Sirens Of Change (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
That three women have become chief ministers is a sign of the churning in
Indian politics. The keynote of the elections was change
- The Great Indian Vote Trick (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Dec 07, 2003)
My most interesting day was the day after the counting — more than the day of the voting or the day of the counting. I have read the tortuous explanations offered by analysts and columnists on the results of the elections in three States and in the Union
- ‘ensuring Accountability Is Not Interference’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2003)
By making CAT a universal entrance exam for all MBA courses isn’t the government trying to interfere in autonomous bodies like the IIMs
- Human Rights Matter (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 07, 2003)
We have come a long way since 10th December 1948 when the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly in Paris by an unanimous vote of 48 with 8 abstentions. It was a momentous achievement. The central theme of the ...
- Saffron Smiles (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
The saffron flag flies high in three of the four states that went to the polls on Monday. The victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party are convincing and pregnant with messages for the BJP, the Congress and the overall political scenario in northern India.
- Saffron Sweep (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
THE LOTUS HAS flowered again, and spectacularly so, in three of the four Congress(I)-ruled States that went to the polls on December 1. The victory must be that much sweeter for the Bharatiya Janata Party because in all the States it was directly pitted..
- The Disconnected Hand (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
This may not be a semi-final for general elections but the Congress is quiet and stranded
- ‘in The End, India Rid Satyendra Of His Pain’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer, wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. The e-mail deluge just doesn’t seem to end
- A Brutal Blow To Congress Ambitions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 05, 2003)
WHILE CONFOUNDING MOST poll pundits, the Bharatiya Janata Party has surprised itself by wresting three out of the four Hindi-belt States decisively from its chief adversary. Contrary to popular expectation, the BJP scored an emphatic win in ...
- Words Without Meanings (Telegraph, Abhijit Mukherjee, Dec 05, 2003)
The most important weapons in the armour of politicians on their election campaigns are words. Of words are made promises, meant to be forgotten soon after the elections. In Chhattisgarh, the Congress’s Ajit Jogi pleaded that he was a “jogi who was asking
- Flavour Of The Times (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 04, 2003)
Incompetence and delays mark the working of key institutions
- There For The Long Term (Telegraph, Achin Vanaik , Dec 04, 2003)
The US is seeking the cultural commitment of elites in west Asia
- ‘satyendra’s Murderers Are Like Terrorists’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2003)
On November 30, The Indian Express reported how Satyendra Dubey, a young NHAI engineer, wrote confidentially to the PMO about corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project in Bihar. He was then murdered. Readers’ e mails just keep pouring in
- Look, The Elephant Gallops (Indian Express, Tarun Das, Dec 03, 2003)
This has been an incredible year for India and the pace of change has been so rapid that the world is yet to catch up with it. Most people, even supposedly well-informed public opinion builders outside India, still perceive India in the traditional way.
- Wanted, A New Safma Patron (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 03, 2003)
BJP ideologue K.R. Malkani, who died recently, will surely be missed by many but none more so than the Pakistan-headquartered South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA), which recently organised the successful visit of Indian MPs (self-led by Laloo Prasad
- The Philosophy Of Privatisation In China (Business Line, S. Majumder , Dec 03, 2003)
While China's privatisation exercise met with quick success despite Communist rule, India's is wobbling, hamstrung by parliamentary democracy.
- When The Bosses Squabble (Telegraph, Kalyan Sanyal, Dec 03, 2003)
Invariably, whenever an important issue arises, experts and analysts immediately take their clear and well-defined stands, and then confidently pontificate. I have always envied the courage of these wise men and women because I have discovered to my ...
- Puritans’ Progress (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2003)
A hyperactive censor board is the surest sign of a sick nation. And when this board gets on like a house on fire with the information and broadcasting ministry, then the sickness begins to look like terminal puritanism. The Central information and ...
- If The Centre Doesn’t Hold (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 02, 2003)
It is more economic than ethnic in Assam. The BJP-led government, caught between mandir and Modi, does not understand a simple thing like this. When the applicants number 72 lakh for a few vacancies in the railways, the response is not to raise 47 more...
- Poll-Itics 2003 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2003)
If this is only the semi-finals, let’s hope we survive the finals
- Voter Must Know Criminal Tendencies Of A Minister (Indian Express, T. R. Andhyarujina, Dec 01, 2003)
The video exposure of Judeo, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, accepting currency notes by way of bribe in a sting operation raises intriguing questions of the legitimacy of such an exposure. Certain facts require to be noticed. The exposure
- Citizens Cry It’s Rape Of Democracy, Govt Works Hard To Find Who Caught The Rapist (Indian Express, Harish Salve, Nov 30, 2003)
Why no FIR in Judeo case after 2 weeks, asks former Solicitor General, now SC amicus curiae
- A Five-Point Deprogramme (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 29, 2003)
From cue cards etched in stone to de-hyping Saarc: rough primer on how to build on the current ceasefire
- Year Of Bounty (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
IN A QUIRK of economic theory, the traditional law of demand and supply has seemingly not worked this year in the farm sector, happily so for farmers.
- Steel Tariffs: Pitting Us Against Half The World (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Nov 28, 2003)
For developing countries such as India and Brazil, the steel sector is pivotal to growth. If it slumps due to the vicissitudes of international trade, these countries would be seriously hurt.
- In Fast-Track City, Old-World Khurana Runs A Solitary Race (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
If elections are won on favours and pavement-thumping activism, then the BJP’s candidate for chief minister of Delhi, Madan Lal Khurana, should be well ahead of his rival, Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
- Wanted: Healthy Politicians (Indian Express, K K Aggarwal, Nov 28, 2003)
The EC should now ensure that political candidates declare their health status
- On The Judeo Trail (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
How CBI conducts the probe could be a test case for the agency to show it’s not a rubber-stamp
- Transferred Justice (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Nov 28, 2003)
The jubilance that the Supreme Court's verdict has averted injustice asserts the pride that the Indian judicial system has the innate capacity to find just solutions. This merits introspective scrutiny.
- Political Hiccups (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 28, 2003)
A pathetic pursuit of ratings, the quest for more advertising has caused TV channels, newpapers and weeklies to focus so heavily on elections in the four northern states that Mizoram seems almost outside the Indian Union.
- Law Day: An Occasion For Some Soul-Searching (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 28, 2003)
NOVEMBER 26, the date on which "we, the people" adopted the Constitution in 1949, is observed as the Law Day in India. (Curiously, in the US, May 1, the Labour Day, is also the Law Day!)
- Rateria Admits: We Did Meet (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Nov 28, 2003)
Judeo video:Dilip Singh Judeo’s asst PS says ‘Rahul’ has left the country; provides CBI with crucial leads
- Verdict Need Not Indicate Trends In Ls Poll, Feel Bjp, Congress (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Nov 28, 2003)
With pollsters forecasting a mixed verdict, the mainstream political parties, BJP and Congress, are wary of projecting the coming Assembly contests as a curtain raiser for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
- For A U.N. Role In Iraq (Hindu, R. Kannan, Nov 28, 2003)
For the political process to succeed, it is important that any semblance of occupation is removed.
- Another Fallen Hero (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 28, 2003)
THE NAĎVETÉ OF sections of Western leaders and opinion makers stands exposed by the fading saga of Eduard Shevardnadze, with the inevitable parallels to what happened to Boris Yeltsin, another of the Western heroes, bringing them more embarrassment th
- Rural India And Media: Emerging Permutations (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Nov 28, 2003)
It is all about the dialectics of change in the Indian media. The novelty is that for once this change is not being triggered by anything that is happening in the urban pockets of the country.
- The India Economic Summit Has Underlined The Need For Expediting Reforms (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
The three-day India Economic Summit – jointly organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the World Economic Forum – that concluded in Delhi on Tuesday has focused on the need to pursue reforms to move the Indian economy further forward.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- Is Uk Slowly Slipping Into Third World Status? (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Nov 27, 2003)
IT IS amazing. For an Indian, it feels no different to be in the UK, nowadays. For instance, the litany of woes against public services seem to go on and on endlessly.
- House Privileges And The Courts (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Nov 27, 2003)
When life and liberty are put in jeopardy by the House on the ground of breach of privilege, the court's verdict about the privilege is final.
- Kerala Crisis: Congress Waits For Deadline To End (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
While the Congress decided to put every other issue on the backburner till the end of Assembly polls, senior party leader K. Karunakaran’s sustained offensive is making it difficult for the party to wait and watch before dealing with the Kerala crisis.
- Quality Of Justice Is Not Strained (Indian Express, V. R. Krishna Iyer , Nov 27, 2003)
Don’t blindly increase the strength of the judiciary. Make the process of judge selection more rigorous
- The Political Crisis In Georgia Has Thrown Up Fresh Challenges For The Country (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 27, 2003)
The political crisis in Georgia has been defused for now with President Eduard Shevardnadze finally stepping down. However, Georgia is going through a tricky transition period and can expect to experience more uncertainty in the coming weeks.
- Boeing Writes To Air India, Makes A Case For 777-200 (Business Line, Ashwini Phadnis, Nov 27, 2003)
THE last may have not yet been heard on the fleet acquisition proposal of the Maharaja. US-based aircraft manufacturing major Boeing has written to Air India pointing to the benefits of choosing the Boeing 777-200 Extended Range (ER) aircraft rather than
- Chaos Rules In Somalia (Hindu, Marc Lacey, Nov 27, 2003)
A decade after the U.S. withdrawal, anarchy reigns in Somalia, a reminder that the `war on terrorism' will not be over even if calm someday replaces chaos in Iraq.
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